NYPD Cops Recovering After Hatchet Attack

Two New York City police officers are recovering after they were attacked last week by a man brandishing a hatchet in the borough of Queens, police officials told the New York Daily News on Saturday. Suggested Reading New AI TikTok Trend Has Gorillas Posing as Black Women, and Folks are Pissed Steve Harvey’s Gorgeous $15…

Two New York City police officers are recovering after they were attacked last week by a man brandishing a hatchet in the borough of Queens, police officials told the New York Daily News on Saturday.

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The attack occurred Thursday when four rookie officers were posing for photos in the middle of the afternoon near Jamaica Avenue when suddenly a man, identified as 32-year-old Zale Thompson, allegedly began swinging the hatchet at them, according to various news accounts.

Officer Kenneth Healey, 25, whose skull was struck in what Police Commissioner Bill Bratton called an โ€œact of terror,โ€ is reportedly in stable condition at a Jamaica Hospital.

โ€œHeโ€™s recovering, but itโ€™s going to be a while,โ€ a high-ranking officer told the paper. Meanwhile, another officer, Joseph Meeker, 24, who was also injured in the attack, was seen leaving his Long Island home on Saturday.

While investigators are still trying to determine what motivated the attack, police told the News that Thompson may have harbored animosity toward the government and white people.

โ€œHe started back in 2011 with his angry postings,โ€ a source said told the News. โ€œBut it wasnโ€™t until March that he started focusing on the Middle East and beheadings and terrorism.โ€

Read more at the New York Daily News.

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